Nick Gillespie

You know, it could be a solar panel, you know, I don't think build your own wind farms have taken off yet, but I'm sure they're coming. You know, like you probably, you want to make it as simple as possible to say like, okay, we've come up with like, here are the basic rules.

You know, it could be a solar panel, you know, I don't think build your own wind farms have taken off yet, but I'm sure they're coming. You know, like you probably, you want to make it as simple as possible to say like, okay, we've come up with like, here are the basic rules.

And then what free markets are really good at is figuring out innovative ways to do stuff for lower costs with better outcomes. And that's not always perfect and it's not always, you know, sometimes it needs a kick in the pants or sometimes you just need a top-down regulation or restriction on something.

And then what free markets are really good at is figuring out innovative ways to do stuff for lower costs with better outcomes. And that's not always perfect and it's not always, you know, sometimes it needs a kick in the pants or sometimes you just need a top-down regulation or restriction on something.

But I think things generally work better, you know, when you let markets operate more freely to kind of figure out what people want to, because a lot of times we don't know what we want. and then how to get there more quickly.

But I think things generally work better, you know, when you let markets operate more freely to kind of figure out what people want to, because a lot of times we don't know what we want. and then how to get there more quickly.

Yeah, DDT is a really interesting example. I mean, the kind of planetary ban, almost complete planetary ban on DDT comes from Rachel Carson in Silent Spring.

Yeah, DDT is a really interesting example. I mean, the kind of planetary ban, almost complete planetary ban on DDT comes from Rachel Carson in Silent Spring.

And she was making a series of cases. And the modern environmentalist movement in a lot of way comes out of that book and the movement that she helped inspire. And it turns out that DDT is really good at killing mosquitoes. The best. Yeah. And its banning was not necessarily a good thing because everything has costs and benefits.

And she was making a series of cases. And the modern environmentalist movement in a lot of way comes out of that book and the movement that she helped inspire. And it turns out that DDT is really good at killing mosquitoes. The best. Yeah. And its banning was not necessarily a good thing because everything has costs and benefits.

And it turns out in certain places, people are using lower levels of DDT in order to really powerfully eradicate mosquitoes. And so like- People, we are constantly held captive by these old things like, you know, DDT was killing people, you know, as if like everything good didn't come out of an era where boys were riding spider bikes, jumping ramps into vats of DDT.

And it turns out in certain places, people are using lower levels of DDT in order to really powerfully eradicate mosquitoes. And so like- People, we are constantly held captive by these old things like, you know, DDT was killing people, you know, as if like everything good didn't come out of an era where boys were riding spider bikes, jumping ramps into vats of DDT.

But, you know, it turns out that it gets much more complicated and we, you know... It's worth going back and thinking about this stuff. And you mentioned polio. I'm sure we'll talk about Robert Kennedy at a certain point. You know, Robert Kennedy, who's old enough to really remember polio, is like, you know, the polio vaccines have, you know, killed more people than they saved.

But, you know, it turns out that it gets much more complicated and we, you know... It's worth going back and thinking about this stuff. And you mentioned polio. I'm sure we'll talk about Robert Kennedy at a certain point. You know, Robert Kennedy, who's old enough to really remember polio, is like, you know, the polio vaccines have, you know, killed more people than they saved.

And it's like, you know, I want to see the stream of iron lungs, you know, going up in front of Health and Human Services.

And it's like, you know, I want to see the stream of iron lungs, you know, going up in front of Health and Human Services.

At certain levels, right? Because this, yeah. And then this is, you know, one of the things I gave a talk last fall, you know, which was about what I call the agony of abundance. Like the biggest problem I think we have today, you know, in a kind of macro sense is we forget how to learn from the past. And- Boy, howdy. There was a poll last year and it's- Preach.

At certain levels, right? Because this, yeah. And then this is, you know, one of the things I gave a talk last fall, you know, which was about what I call the agony of abundance. Like the biggest problem I think we have today, you know, in a kind of macro sense is we forget how to learn from the past. And- Boy, howdy. There was a poll last year and it's- Preach.

Yeah, and it's like almost 60% of people last year said that life was better in America in 1974. Because you were a kid. Yeah, let's go look at 1974 and like the Pinto was the best-selling car in 1974.

Yeah, and it's like almost 60% of people last year said that life was better in America in 1974. Because you were a kid. Yeah, let's go look at 1974 and like the Pinto was the best-selling car in 1974.